Passengers on a boat tour take photos of a light display underneath a bridge along an urban waterway in Beijing, Friday, June 30, 2023. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





Local people clean up silt and garbage in Caotan Village of Yantouzhai Town, Hunan Province, China 02 July 2023. Torrential rain has been battering parts of Hunan since 29 June with the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture experiencing the most severe rainfall since the flood season, according to the Hunan provincial flood and drought control headquarters on 01 July. (Photo by Chen Zhenhai/EPA via Xinhua News Agency)





A security guard wearing an electric fan on his neck wipes his sweat on a hot day in Beijing, Monday, July 3, 2023. Heavy flooding has displaced thousands of people around China as the capital had a brief respite from sweltering heat. Beijing reported 9.8 straight days when the temperature exceeded 35 C (95 F), the National Climate Center said Monday. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Residents cool off from a hot day at an urban waterway in Beijing, Monday, July 3, 2023. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A woman helps a child to switch on an electric fan on a hot day in Beijing, Monday, July 3, 2023. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Residents carry umbrellas to shield from the sun as they take rest on a bench on a hot day in Beijing, Monday, July 3, 2023. Heavy flooding has displaced thousands of people around China as the capital had a brief respite from sweltering heat. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A woman uses a sweater to shield from the sun as she walls on a street on a hot day in Beijing, Monday, July 3, 2023. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A woman cools herself with a fan as she rides a tricycle with a child on a hot day in Beijing, Monday, July 3, 2023. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Residents cool off from an unseasonably hot day at an urban waterway in Beijing, Monday, July 3, 2023. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





The photo taken on July 3, 2023 shows local residents taking part in an aerobics exercise at a square in Jiamusi, in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province. (Photo by Jade Gao/AFP Photo)





Children dressed as deities take part in a procession in front of the Ruins of St. Paul during celebrations marking the Feast of Na Tcha in Macau on July 4, 2023. (Photo by Eduardo Leal/AFP Photo)





Members from the Blue Sky Rescue Team, a Chinese civil relief squad, attempt to evacuate a flood-trapped resident in Wanzhou District, southwest China's Chongqing, July 4, 2023. The latest round of torrential rains since Monday had killed 15 people and left four others missing in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality as of 7 a.m. Wednesday, local authorities said. The heavy rains, mainly seen in the areas along the Yangtze River, have triggered floods and geological disasters, disrupting the lives of more than 130,000 people in 19 districts and counties, according to the municipal office of emergency management. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, workers clean up silt and mud along a street in the Wanzhou district of Chongqing, China, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. More than a dozen people have been killed by floods in southwestern China as seasonal torrents hit mountain areas, authorities said Wednesday. (Photo by Ran Mengjun/Xinhua via AP Photo)





A giant screen broadcasts news footage of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi attending via video link the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Council of Heads of State, in Beijing, China on July 4, 2023. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





Aerial view of a clear and turbid landscape at the intersection of the Sanjiang Estuary during the flood season on July 4, 2023 in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. (Photo by Chen Guanyan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)





People rest outside a store amid the orange alert for heatwave, in Beijing, China on July 5, 2023. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





Sparks pour down as folk artists spray burning iron chips to shower sparks-like fireworks in Luanping County, north China's Hebei Province, 05 July 2023. (Photo by Mu Yu/Xinhua News Agency/EPA)





Children are training during the “Tactical Quagmire” program at a military summer camp in Hefei, Anhui Province, China on July 5, 2023. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A rainbow is seen as a plane carrying Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen taxis after arriving at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (Phoot by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





People wearing sun protection gear walk on a street, amid a red alert for heatwave in Beijing, China on July 6, 2023. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)